jessegehrig
As I write this I am also watching this movie- real time, motherf*ckers! Some of the characters in this movie have SEX! Sex is what animals do for biological reason. Sex is what people do for : money, cocaine, ego support, to get back at a parent or parents, boredom, because it's socialized behavior, because of a sexual assault from the past and the trauma of that event has yet to be fully processed and dealt with, also some humans have sex to share intimacy, whatever intimacy is in the Age Of Social Media. Yes, bald apes slapping their genitals together in mindless fury, with cycles of abuse and incest to be repeated generation after generation, sounds like a great plan to me, House of Wax.
a_baron
If you haven't seen this film before, you've seen something very similar. A group of slightly dysfunctional American kids on a road trip end up after a glitch in a haunted house, or some such, in this case a waxworks. Well, a wax town, actually. Naturally there is a maniac on the loose, or two in this case, and guess who they are intent on killing?There is really not a lot more to this film, which might be called a slasher flick as well as a "melt flick". The only question is how many if any of our heroes will survive? Any points this one gets is for special effects, so if your idea of fun is seeing a girl having the top of her finger lopped off, or better still seeing a young Paris Hilton getting staked through the head, this could be a film for you.
SnoopyStyle
Carly Jones (Elisha Cuthbert), her boyfriend Wade (Jared Padalecki), her troubled brother Nick (Chad Michael Murray), her best friend Paige Edwards (Paris Hilton), Paige's boyfriend Blake and Dalton Chapman are on their way to a football game. They take a detour and decide to camp out for the night. A muddy truck interrupts them and Nick throws a bottle that bust one of the headlights. The next day, Wade's fan belt is cut. Carly discovers a pit of dead animals. Wade and Carly catch a ride from the roadkill driver. They find the town of Ambrose virtually deserted. Most of the small town is attending a funeral. Bo (Brian Van Holt) needs to finish the funeral before selling the fan belt. The couple decides to go into the closed House of Wax. Their friends are driving back after getting stuck in traffic.This thing starts pretty slow. It turns into a traditional slasher horror movie. The good news is that Paris Hilton gets killed. The wax figures are good creepy background. Elisha Cuthbert is a good scream queen and there is nothing wrong with a slasher movie where pretty young people get massacred.
Python Hyena
House of Wax (2005): Dir: Jaume Collet-Serra / Cast: Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki, Paris Hilton, Jon Abrahams: Numbingly stupid horror film where every character splits up and winds up dead. This is a remake of the Vincent Price classic only this time the emphasis is on various methods of death. Six college kids head for the big football game but pull over for a night of sex and drinking. They are startled by an ominous truck then wake up to tampered vehicles. From there they encounter a town highlighted by a wax museum where its inhabitants look a little too real. Standard plot follows formula until reaching a violent climax. Director Jaume Collet-Serra is aided by great visual images including the massive wax house, but the characters exist to be tortured and murdered for entertainment. Airhead characters played by Chad Michael Murray, Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki, and Paris Hilton. They run, scream and die horribly and that unfortunately seems to be the point. Hilton seems to be the marketing ticket but that hardly makes up for the fact that she isn't in the entire running time. Technically well made horror mess with a screenplay that should have been burned long before these meat head college brats decided to inhabit it and die. This is an example of what is wrong with many of the more recent horror films. This one should be drenched in hot wax. Score: 2 / 10
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